Authors Guild, Inc. v. HathiTrust
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Authors Guild v. HathiTrust, 755 F.3d 87 (2d Cir. 2014), is a United States copyright decision finding search and accessibility uses of digitized books to be fair use.
Authors Guild, Inc. v. HathiTrust | |
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Court | United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit |
Full case name | Authors Guild v. HathiTrust |
Decided | June 10, 2014 (2d Cir.); October 10, 2012 (SDNY) |
Citation(s) | 755 F.3d 87 (2d Cir. 2014); 902 F.Supp.2d 445, 104 U.S.P.Q.2d 1659, Copyr.L.Rep. ¶ 30327 (SDNY) |
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Judge(s) sitting | Harold Baer Jr. (SDNY); John M. Walker, Jr., José A. Cabranes, Barrington Daniels Parker, Jr. (2d Cir.) |
Keywords | |
copyright infringement, fair use |
The Authors Guild, other author organizations, and individual authors claimed that the HathiTrust Digital Library had infringed their copyrights through its use of books scanned by Google. A federal court ruled against the plaintiffs in October 2012, finding that HathiTrust's use was permissible under fair use.[1][2] The plaintiffs appealed the decision to the Second Circuit, and were rebuffed in 2014. In an opinion by Barrington Daniels Parker, Jr., the Second Circuit largely affirmed the lower court's findings of fair use for accessibility and search, remanding only to consider whether the plaintiffs had standing to sue about library preservation copies.[3][4] The remaining claims were settled on January 6, 2015.[5][6][7]